This pet may be used by non-engineers. Players must complete all three escort quests to earn a final quest, [50]An OOX of Your Own in Booty Bay, which provides this pet as a reward. Note that the pet is BoU, so it can also be found at auction.

For help completing the prerequisite quests, try the following macro:

/run local z={"Tanaris","Hinterlands","Feralas"}for k,v in pairs({{351,648},{485,836},{25475,25476}})do print(z[k])for i,q in pairs(v)do print(" #"..i,"\124Hquest:"..q.."\124h["..q.."]\124h",IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(q)and COMPLETE or INCOMPLETE)end end

The Customer Service Forums (US) have an on-going thread about the three individual drops needed for this quest. If you are unsure which of the OOX you have had drop for you, post and the friendly GMs will let you know where you are in the quest line!

If you're looking for the eggs individually, get ready for some farming. Youve got a good chance to get the Tanaris beacon from a run in Zul'Farakk, But the Hinterlands and feralas ones required some decent farming. Theres a huge camp full of Woodpaw Gnolls in Feralas that work nicely, and in the Hinterlands look for Mangey Silvermaine wolves.

I can't belive people sell this one on the AH. Once you get him and sell him, you can't ever get him again. I know, I know... some people just aren't into pets like we are. But seeing this one on the AH makes warcraftpet collectors cry for those that know not the joy of companion collecting.

With Patch 3.3, the lua allows for addons to query the server for which quests you have completed, which means certain addons can tell you which of the OOX quests you've completed, or partially completed, or whatever!

I used the addon "EveryQuest" from wow.curse.com. Worked like a charm.

The trick I've found for preventing the chicken from ignoring combat is to lag behind him so they attack the chicken first. If it's actually engaged in combat it will stop and fight rather than leave you to die. He's not bad in a fight either, usually almost dropping one of the mobs while you're working on the others.

If you are doing these quests at low level, be aware that the chicken in the quests likes to keep running sometimes when mobs appear leaving you to deal with them alone. I remember this happened to me in Feralas at least. This is easy way to fail the quest if you're too slow killing them and chicken gets too far from you.

Slightly above avarage health and power, with nice 289 speed. This is a solid mechanical pet. Peck if you face lots of aquatics, otherwise Batter is a better choice. Especially combined with Overtune, this can really put the hurt on speedy pets(say hi Death Adder and fliers). Always nice to do a Wind-Up when you can't do anything else and then release the pain. Just watch out for elementals of course, and it does not have any defensive moves(good offence makes for best defense). Great pet.

The hardest of the 3 pre quests to get is the Hinterlands. Wowhead will show that turtles drop him if you look at their locator map, when in fact all creatures in the Hinterlands will drop him. I ended up nuking all the trolls in Jintha Alor for a few hours until the Beacon dropped.

Using a macro from wowhead comments about the 3 quests, I checked each of my characters and discovered that most had done 1 of the 3 quest chains. Only one character had done 2 of the quest chains. The Hinterlands drop rate seems horrible. Tanaris may not be bad, but it is so full of PvP these days, it's hard to quest. Luckily, my druid only needed the Feralas quest chain and got the drop in the Yeti caves - probably the 20th yeti killed. Not too bad after using the macro.

I had a LOT of issues with these quests. The Hinterlands one glitched and I had to contact customer support to restart the quest. Then I still didn't get it and contacted them again, and they told me I never got the Feralas quest, which I know I did. For those of you who have issues, you're not alone. Contact customer support and if nothing else they can help tell you which quest you're missing.

This pet was ridiculous to get, post-cata. I got it on my ex-main quickly pre-cata, but last week, it took me 5 days (3 in Hinterlands). Feralas was quick, as listed yeti drop it in a few kills. Tanaris took 100+ kills outside ZF & then I did 2 full runs of ZF before it dropped. Hinterlands was absurd. 200+ kills, then did ALL the quests, then 300+ more kills. Went to BB, showed that I didn't meet requirements for OOX of my own, but turned in tanaris quest, and I got the pet!! Confusing..

I got the first two beacons easily, but did some annoying grinding to get the final one. Was so happy when I finally got it, completed it and picked up my new mechanical chicken!
The first non-purchase pet I actively pursued, and got me addicted to collecting.

Unlike the other 'quest pets' that are out there, this lovely chicken cannot be retrieved from the friendly neighbourhood stablemasters. This is because it's a BoE item rather than BoP; it would be too easy to sell your chicken, get another, sell that, and so on. So if you have completed this quest and got rid of the chicken, you'll have to hit the AH or make an alt. I suggest a handy throwaway DK...